Etelä-afrikka

- Nähtävyydet kuuluisimmista kohteista pikku löytöihin - oman kiinnostuksesi mukaan- Värikuvat auttavat valitsemaan ravintolat, baarit, klubit ja hotellit- Ostosvinkit johdattelevat shoppailijan oikeisiin osoitteisiin- Kulttuuri, ajanviete ja urheil…

Get up close and personal with Southern Africa's amazing wildlife with this all-in-one safari guide Cheetah and springbok race in a 100km/hour sprint to the death in the Kalahari; a vast grey mass of elephants surround you on their way to the riverb…

An examination of the interplay of how local, regional and global actors and arenas shape the lives of the people and nations of southern Africa Love demonstrates the complex realities of how local and global politics are intimately interwoven, some…

Twenty-five per cent of southern African flora is succulent in nature, and a remarkable forty per cent of the world's succulent plants occur in South Africa. The book will highlight the diversity of succulents that occur in the region with special e…

This book is the first stand-alone and definitive account of the cetaceans of the oceanic region from the equator to Antarctica, and between the longitudes of 20- W and 80- E - a region that includes almost two-thirds of the world's marine cetacean…

Part of a modularized series of short books on introductory sociology, "Crime and Deviance" is an introduction to the field, its fundamental concepts and major writers, especially those relevant to southern Africa and the developing world. This conc…

Insight City Guides just got even better! With more detailed coverage spanning over 250 pages, this guide provides a highly visual introduction to Cape Town. Street atlases provide extra clarity and easy orientation, locating hotels and restaurants,…

Two lectures given by the medical missionary and explorer David Livingstone after his return to England from his travels in Africa (1841-1856) form the core of this book, which was originally published in 1858, the year when Livingstone set off on t…

The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful and fervently anti-democratic elites of these countries abandon death squads, apartheid, and the other tools of polit…

The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful and fervently anti-democratic elites of these countries abandon death squads, apartheid, and the other tools of polit…

Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they engi…

La Caille was one of the observational astronomers and geodesists who followed Newton in developing ideas about celestial mechanics and the shape of the earth. He provided data to the great 18th-century mathematicians involved in understanding the c…

This new, larger format edition of the best-selling and well known "The Wildlife of Southern Africa" - a field guide to the animals and plants of the region - is designed to provide an even more user-friendly manual, with larger text and bigger, cle…

Valkoista mustalla on mukaansatempaava ja järkyttävä, mutta yllättäen myös hauska dokumenttikirja Etelä-Afrikasta. Se on hetkittäin eksyksiin joutuvan kertojan matka apartheidin ja voitetun vapaustaistelun synnyttämiin maisemiin ja tunnelmiin, rohke…

Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) was a distinguished British government servant whose diplomatic career took him to China and Africa, and who in forty years as Secretary to the Admiralty was responsible for promoting Arctic and Antarctic exploration, inc…

Fully updated and revised, this third edition features new, simplified keys based on leaf characteristics and incorporates updated names, reclassifications and new species. All known indigenous trees and many naturalized aliens ocurring south of the…

A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow.

Southern Africa is as much about howling hyenas in Zimbabwe's Mana Pools National Park as it is about Cape Town's coffee culture. Backpackers and top-enders alike should take time just to wind down and fall into the rhythm of this majestic region. T…

Reissue in Vintage. A specialist in pyschological warefare is driven to braekdown and madness by the stressed of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. A meglomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengence on a Hottentot tribe f…

This book is the second in a two volume study on Sweden and the struggle for national liberation in Southern Africa. Largely drawing from hitherto restricted sources at official and NGO archives, the study focuses on Sweden 's relations with MPLA of…

Primary health care in southern Africa: A comprehensive approach 3e focuses on primary health care, drawing on an Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) approach. It covers topics such as international views on primary health care, commun…

Southern Africa has a wealth of mammal species, a total of 337 - all of which are covered in this fully revised comprehensive field guide. While the term 'African mammals' conjures up the more celebrated species of elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard a…

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpubli…

Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) was a distinguished British government servant whose diplomatic career took him to China and Africa, and who in forty years as Secretary to the Admiralty was responsible for promoting Arctic and Antarctic exploration, inc…

Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) was a distinguished British government servant whose diplomatic career took him to China and Africa, and who in forty years as Secretary to the Admiralty was responsible for promoting Arctic and Antarctic exploration, inc…

Some of the earliest human populations lived in Southern Africa, and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and on the emergence of modern humans. The sub-continent has one of the world's richest heritages of rock art, a…

Over the last fifteen years the world's largest developing countries have initiated market reform in their electric power sectors from generation to distribution. This book evaluates the experiences of five of those countries - Brazil, China, India,…

Satu Miettisen toimittama kirja on kokoelma matkailuun, materiaaliseen kulttuuriin ja kehitykseen liittyviä artikkeleita. Artikkelien kirjoittajat ovat sekä suomalaisia että namibialaisia asiantuntijoita ja tutkijoita. Julkaisu liittyy Helinä Rautav…

The author has drawn on primary sources from Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce a book that encompasses not only Australia's experience of the war, but tells the stories of individuals, including Breaker Morant, Alexander Kryg…

Magnificent South Africa is a title which places its main emphasis on the country's wide-ranging landscapes, the extensive natural beauty and the unique cultural heritage. This pictorial souvenir enables the reader to sit back and be reminded of the…

Coming fifteen years after South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. It presents South Africa's past in an objective, clear, and refreshing manner. With chapters contributed by…

The Pupils' Books: are child-centred and activity based, enabling differentiated approaches to learning that your students can fully engage with use a modern page design and are full of high quality, full-colour illustrations that will captiva…

What's that bird? offers the budding birder an easy entry into the often bewildering world of bird identification. Simple and direct in its approach, it groups birds according to family likeness or common habitat or, occasionally, species that are l…

This title contains updated text and includes an additional fifteen new species that have been recognised since the publication of Sasol Birds. The new edition incorporates the most recent information about bird taxonomy, as well as the latest bird…

What is the real status of English in the world, and in South Africa in particular? South Africa has 11 official languages, and purports to uphold equal rights for all. However, English continues to wield immense official and unofficial power. Many…

This uniquely visual "DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: South Africa" is your indispensable guide to this exciting country. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of South Africa's must-see sites, plus street-by-…

The Boer lifestyle of hunting for sport and profit honed the skills of field-craft, horsemanship and marksmanship, making them a formidable force in the field and well suited to guerrilla operations. This book describes the life and combat experienc…

This volume, written by leaders in their fields from medical schools and institutions all over South Africa, has been compiled and designed to be the leading psychiatry text for South African medical students. This authoritative textbook is aimed pr…

With about 1800 native species of trees in southern Africa, plus several hundred more that have been introduced, the challenge of identifying even a small portion of these is a problem for botanists and laymen alike. Most tree identification guides…

This is photographic field guide to the mammals of South Africa.

Originally published in 1928, this book provides an introduction to the prehistory of South Africa. It was based on an archaeological tour through South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, undertaken by the author at the invitation of the University of Ca…

"You will understand Africa differently after reading this book...the richly reported stories he tells to make his case are unforgettable." -William Finnegan.. Since 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands-Rwa…

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpubli…

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpubli…

With specific directions to the best viewing sites within the most spectacular and diverse wildlife reserves, beautifully complemented with hundreds of colour photographs of wildlife and landscapes, engaging and educative information about the fauna…

The Weather and Climate of Southern Africa, the second edition of The Atmosphere and Weather of Southern Africa, further consolidates and expands Tyson and Preston-Whyte's in-depth textbook on the meteorology of southern Africa. It offers an introdu…

Rosemary Mulholland's new book focuses on the struggle by the black majority for political and social freedom in South Africa. The book begins with an account of the origins of racism, segregation and republicanism before 1948. It then concentrates…

This comprehensive volume covers all mammals that occur naturally on the African mainland south of the Cunene and Zambezi rivers, and also in the subregion's coastal waters. Extensively revised and updated for the new edition, it now includes the la…